Clean Heart

 Clean Heart

June 16, 2025

Proverbs 16:2 (NASB95)

 Allthe ways of a man are clean in his own sight, But the LORD weighs the motives.

Psalms 51:10-13 (NASB95) 

10 Create in me a clean heart, O God, And renew a steadfast spirit within me. 11 Do not cast me away from Your presence And do not takeYour Holy Spirit from me. 12 Restore to me the joy of Your salvation And sustain me with a willing spirit. 13 Then I will teach transgressors Your ways, And sinners will be converted to You.

In a recent Bible class, we were studying how to prepare our heart to serve the Lord. The Lord requires a clean heart, but how do we know we have a clean heart? According to the Proverbs, all of our ways are clean in our own sight, but that does not make it so! It is easy to deceive ourselves into thinking that everything is OK and that we don’t need to change or clean up anything. That is nearly always incorrect. The only way to know for sure that we have a clean heart is to seek the Lord and ask Him to show us what is truly in our heart. Psalm 51 is a good example of where King David had to face up to his own iniquity and confess his wrongdoing. Only by facing the truth and taking responsibility was he able to then ask the Lord for a clean heart. So if we desire to serve the Lord, we need to first ask Him to examine our hearts and help us acknowledge any impurity there. Once we face up to the truth, then He can forgive us and give us a clean heart and we will be able to lead sinners to be converted to the Lord.